‘Academic Signing Day' celebrates student scholars at Hoggard High

Hoggard High School students who received scholarships were honored Friday. (SOURCE: WECT)

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WECT) -

Nationwide cameras focus in on student athletics as they
sign a contract with the college they plan to play sports at. However, on Friday
at Hoggard High School it was the student scholars that took center stage. The
New Hanover County School hosted the first Academic Signing Day for students. Students who received scholarships to go to
colleges and universities were honored in front of their teachers, peers and
parents.

"I think a lot of the time it's like oh the
nerd, you just get pushed to the side, so it's pretty nice to be recognized
from the academic standpoint," said Rachel Delange who received the Park
Scholarship, a full ride to NC State.

"It makes me proud to see academics are
appreciated a lot more than they used to be," said Da'Shaun Harrison who will
be going to Morehouse College in Atlanta and received several scholarships
including the Morehouse Merit Scholarship. He says the last four years were a
lot of work, but well worth it. It's a sentiment many of the other students at
Friday's signing agreed with.

"For all four years in high school I had to
bust my butt off to go to the dream school I wanted to go to so bad," said
Romello Robinson, who says a scholarship is making it possible to go to his ‘dream
school', EC Central.

Hoggard officials hope to make this Academic
Signing an annual tradition.

Berkeley County School District officials say a social media post about someone wanting do harm at a school with an SHS abbreviation originated in another state and is not directed at any school in the county.

Berkeley County School District officials say a social media post about someone wanting do harm at a school with an SHS abbreviation originated in another state and is not directed at any school in the county.